I had a "stopped on the way home from golf to buy a new putter" round today.
Put the new Vivid Golf wedges in play today. #1 - put a 3/4 56* shot 3 feet from the hole - birdie. #2 - put a 95 yard 52* to 10 feet - birdie. #3, after chunking a 7i approach, had a 30 yard chip with the 56*, put it to 2 feet. Yep, love the wedges.
Anyway, the fast start cooled a bit, but only because I missed 3 birdie putts under 15 feet. One bogey, back to -1. Then on #9 had a 10 footer for birdie, a I got one of those viral video moments where you hit the putt dead center, where it hits dead center back of the cup, hits the raised lip because the cup wasn't sunk low enough, and hops up in the air back out of the cup. My partners said to take it, but I felt odd, and was happy at -1 anyway. Although I could have easily been -4.
#10-#12, I missed birdie putts under 10 feet on all 3. Frustration set in and I fell apart. A few bogeys, and then a triple when a lake got me. Of course, after the triple I drill a 20 foot birdie on 17. And then on 18, 60 yards from the green in two, decide to try the 60* wedge and chunked it twice for a double bogey. Brutal last 6.
Funny thing was, I have lived here in SoCal for 27 years, but this was only the 2nd time I went to this course (Industry Hills). It is a nice 36 hole facility, but it is towards LA for me, so big traffic. 40 miles takes me 1:30 usually. Anyway, the 1st time I played, I got paired up with an Actor, Howard Lefstein. He was a prototypical SoCal surfer dude. I googled him after, and he had been in several movies, always credited as "stoner" or "Surfer dude". Really nice guy, we had a fun round. And this time, on my 2nd visit, I get paired up with.....an actor. Tommy Martinez. Just finished a 5 season run on Hulu's "Good Trouble", and his girlfriend is also an Actor - playing Kitana in the next Mortal Kombat 2 movie. Again, a very nice guy. Good place to go if you want to meet actors I guess.
